Rozemyne will take on even the gods themselves in her quest to rescue Ferdinand. She speeds to Ahrensbach faster than Steifebrise, and as the battle against Lanzenave commences, Georgine finally begins her invasion. To war!
OH MY GOD I screamed. I actually screamed when I read the last line. As Rozemyne took Ferdinand's name and gave out an order to live. The fact that it's not next monday yet makes me so sad I need to know what happens next! I need to see her take the foundation and reunite with Ferdinand!
Justus is more ruthless than I thought. Poor Letizia -- we get that straight up horror show last volume, and now the people who are ostensibly "on her side" (well, moreso than anyone else in Ahrensbach anyway) are ready to kill her. And she's just a kid!
I'm sure that's nothing that an actual explanation with more detail than "yes, she was the one who poisoned Ferdinand, but she was used as a pawn" can't correct. Or seeing how Ahrensbach is treating her for that matter. I'm sure even Eckhart will be able to easily control his dark urges, once he sees this sobbing mess of a girl in a prison cell, or chained on a ship bound for Lanzenave.
That being said, Rozemyne couldn't have chosen a worse way to word it, if she tried. Used as a pawn implies that Letizia knew what she was doing, which definitely was not the case. She at the very least should have said that the girl was tricked into it, or better yet, make it clear that Letizia had no clue she had been turned into a walking land-mine.
I don't know what "used as a pawn" means in Ehrenfest or even Japanese, but I understand that phrase to mean that the person had no agency, possibly neither control nor knowledge, about their actions or how they might affect others.
Not to mention, this girl is not even old enough to go to school yet. Of course she is easily manipulated and fooled by someone experienced in human manipulation.
I gotta admit, it's kinda funny how Rozenmyne perceived Ferdinand's Last Will as, "I MUST GO SAVE HIM," while the letter he sent through Justus was basically the opposite, "DON'T DO ANYTHING, YOU FOOL".
To be fair to Rozemyne, when Ferdinand wrote the letter, he wouldn't have known that Georgine is already poised for striking Ehrenfest and that she has a way to take their foundation. Nor would he have known that Rozemyne likewise has a way to steal Ahrensbach's foundation and would be able to get Dunkelfelger on their side for the assault on top of getting permission from the royal family to go through with the attack... well technically we haven't heard the royals actually giving that permission yet, but with how much the royals want to get rid of Detlinde and how much they stand to gain from this, I think that's just a formality.
Nor would he have known, that Ahrensbach would be so considerably weakened, by the slaughter that Georgine and Detlinde have planned for any noble who's not following them unconditionally. This slaughter is planned for the exact same night, in which Rozemyne plans to launch the assault. So in the worst case, Ahrensbach's defenses will be in weakened and in disarray, and in the best case there will be Ahrensbach nobles, who realized they are on the chopping block, but are still alive and thus will likely ally with the attacking force, further bolstering the strength of the attackers.
Ironically rember during the Santa (Bezewazz) incedent he mentioned Myne should have completely terminated him. I guess Roz took a page on that. Just at the scale of another dutchy ..... 🫠
I would imagine that Lutz got a far less detailed version (just a momentary flash really), because he isn't a mana wielder. Either that or it was because the Trombe was sucking out Myne's mana. After all, the "transmission" did cut off from Ferdinand too, when the mana began being sucked out of him.
I love the cover and where it suggests the story is going!
Justus' point of view - wow, that was very welcome and it surprised me how powerfully it landed with me.
And then when Justus and Rozemyne get to confer - them coming together with resources and ideas is as fabulous as I had hoped. And high praise from Eckhart!
Of course Rozemyne is not going to start following Ferdinand's instructions now. Sylvester's amusement at the prospect of Ferdinand dealing with the mess she's about to make... I look forward to that too.
Time for dinner and gathering permission slips from the knights. Love seeing Rozemyne's entourage get their assignments and some strong words of support from everyone.
I wonder why they would go to Kirnberger. They have a teleporter to the Royal Academy right in the castle. Taking that detour to use the Zent teleporter in the country gate, is going to cost them hours. Is Rozemyne expecting that Ahrensbach is going to ambush them between their and the Dunkelfelger dormitories? I mean as the 6th, their door would between Dunkelfelger's and Ehrenfest's, so I guess it's not entirely out of the question... but it is such a remote possibility, that I don't think it's worth several hours of detour.
I don't really understand what you're proposing. Assuming they had permission to take an assault force through the Sovereignty, Rozemyne and co. could meet up with Dunkelfelger's knights quickly in the Royal Academy, but then what? I'm just not really understanding how they would get from the Royal Academy to Ahrensbach.
When Rozemyne visited Kirnberger a couple of books back, the Giebe explained a few details about the country gates. First of all they are pairs, an outer one controlled by the Zent and an inner one controlled by the local Aub. Every one of the outer country gates has a teleportation circle that connects it directly with the Sovereignty, so the Zents can go directly to the gate in question, and don't have to bother the local Aub, or travel through multiple duchies, everytime they want to lock or unlock a country gate.
That is almost asuredly why Rozemyne became so interested, when she heard that Ahrensbach already unlocked their inner gate, because it means they can teleport right there, and not only have less distance to cover to reach Ahrensbach's capital, but they can do so flying solely over uninhabited ocean, as opposed to going through Dunkelfelger's duchy gate, from which they would have to cross over multiple Giebe controlled provinces, and thus would have had considerably more chance of being spotted early and attacked by the local knights, serving the Giebes, long before they reached their destination. Of course there are Lanzenave ships going to and fro down on that ocean, but as we've learned the previous volume, Lanzenave mana-wielders can't use Ordonnanzes and whatever communication method they use instead, does not work in Yurgenschmidt. So the attackers could easily subdue the ships, or just bypass them by flying too high for their weapons to reach them and without having to worry that a warning might get through to the capital, before they themselves arrive there. This in turn means they can preserve the element of surprise pretty much until they are in direct visual range of the city
So yes, they could go to Kirnberger to use the country-gate's teleporter to go to the Sovereignty... but why, when they have a teleporter right in the archduke's castle?